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Over the weekend, active-duty soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division and the 82nd Airborne Division assisted in aiding the hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina. On Sunday, Active duty soldiers from the 82nd Airborne and the 20th Engineer Brigade from Fort Liberty, North Carolina, transported three 5-ton MTVs worth of food and water to the…
An Army veteran who was arrested for the murder of a woman in 1994 pleaded guilty to the crime on Friday. After being approached by detectives at his New York home about the murder in Virginia, he confessed and was arrested in 2023. Stephen Smerk, 52, admitted to stabbing 37-year-old Robin Lawrence to death while…
The above video was produced by The Salty Soldier with images and documents obtained from the US Army A US Army sergeant stationed in Germany was found guilty during a court-martial just over a month ago. Sergeant Tulga Tolya, assigned to Bravo Company, Troop Command, Landstuhl Regional Medical Center was accused of sexually assaulting a…
The video above contains imagery obtained from public social media The wife of a soldier assigned to a US special operations unit was taken into custody on Wednesday for allegedly murdering her missing husband in Utah. Authorities arrested Jennifer Gledhill, 41, and booked her into the Salt Lake County jail on one count of first-degree…
The video contains media obtained from Air Force veteran Jonathan Howard Editor’s note: This article was originally published on October 3rd but was updated with more information on October 4th. An Air Force special operations veteran, who currently serves in the National Guard, has come forward to claim what is being reported about the US…
(Video produced by The Salty Soldier with imagery provided by U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Tristan Moore and U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Juan Torres) Written by Walter T. Ham IV for the Army News Service MUNDA, Solomon Islands – U.S. Army and Marine Corps Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians joined together with bomb…
(The video of the robbery is above) A US Army veteran was targeted by a brazen group of thieves in Arizona this week. Michael Florant, an Army veteran who served in Desert Storm, says he woke up Wednesday morning to an alert on his phone that said his truck had been opened without the key….
The Army has ramped up the production of the replacements for the M4, M249, and M240B rifle/machine guns to be issued to close combat forces. The M4’s replacement, the XM7, is the U.S. Army variant of the SIG MCX Spear, a 6.8×51mm (.277 in), gas-operated, magazine-fed assault rifle. The biggest change is the switch to…
Rachel Teague says she recently retired -likely medical due to her short time in service- from the Army after serving as an Airborne Infantryman. This year. she started school at Southern Illinois University but says on her social media she misses the Army. It’s not known why she was early retired from the Army Infantry…
A soldier at Fort Carson has been charged with assault while working at a nightclub in Colorado Springs, Co. Army Specialist Jacob Elliot is accused of more than one assault while being employed as a bouncer at a nightclub the Army prohibits soldiers from patronizing. While working at Nova Nightclub, Elliet is accused of choking…
